Improvement in coin-holders



0. H. CARPENTER.

Coin-Holder.

No. 208,958. Patehted Oct. 15,1878.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES H. CARPENTER, OF SYRACUSE, NEV YORK.

IMPROVEMENT lN COIN-HOLDERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 208,958, dated October 15, 1878; application filed I July 27, 1878.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES H. CARPEN- TER, of Syracuse, New York, have invented a certain Improvement in Goindllnvelopes, &c.,

consists of a four-sided prism, which may be formed of thick paper, metal, or any other suitable material for the purpose to which it is to be applied.

In the drawing, Figure l is a representation of the closed package complete. Fig. 2 is a sheet of paper or metal of which it is composed cut into the proper form therefo r. Fig. 3 shows the package formed with the flap open, showing the inclosed contents through an opening.

The construction is as follows: The sheet forming the wrapper or package is cut as in Fig. 2, and then folded on the dotted lines. The parts a form the sides, four of which form a prism like Fig. 1. There is an additional side piece of the same size as the others, which laps over the first one, and to this a tuck, b, is affixed. This tuck b enters a slit, 1), in the second side, or passes through a loop cut therein and may be made long enough to wrap around the prism to stick or seal down upon either of the sides, so as to be opened and resealed any desired number of times. The projections d, forming the ends of the prism, are to be turned inward at right angles to the sides lapping over each other and secured. They may be further strengthened by pasteboard, wood, or other material the size of the ends. It is obvious that these prisms may have any number of sides without. changing their character or purpose, and the overlap in certain cases may be omitted.

This invention possesses the following advantages among others: that they are more readily handled and packed; they will not roll on an inclined desk; the coins can be readily seen and counted without removing or disturbing the package, and they can be tested with acid or other counterfeit-detecter in bulk, and they can be securely sealed and rescaled when opened.

When the fifth or overlapping side and tuck are opened out, as in Fig. 3, or omitted, the side thereby exposed has an opening through it to show the contents, either by shortening the side or cutting a slot therein from end to end, as indicated by dotted lines at 3 or otherwise.

Having thus fully described my improved coin-package for bankers, 850., I claim- A prismatic coin-holder or package constructed and adapted for use substantially as herein described.

C. H. CARPENTER.

Witnesses JAMES S. THORN, J. J. GREENOUGH. 

